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On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss protests outside Pauline Hanson's One Nation events and the three-day picket of Bisalloy Steel in Tharawal/Wollongong. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge th...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss protests resisting government crackdown on the right to protest and the fight against Pauline Hanson’s racism. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this...

Green Left's Jacob Andrewartha speaks to Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin magazine, author of The Socialist Manifesto (2019) and President of American progressive journal The Nation about the political situation in the United States in response to the Trump administration and the prospects for building socialist politics. Sunkara visited Australia as part of a SEARCH Foundation sponsore...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss the workers’ campaigns fighting for better pay, workloads and conditions, and upcoming events for Naksa Day, which commemorates when Israel extended its illegal occupation 59 years ago. Find more upcoming events  here . Music a...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss the solidarity shown with Gazans under siege and Sumud flotilla participants and the ongoing fight to save public housing from demolition. Donate to the Action for Public Housing Waterloo occupation fundraiser here . Find more...

"Person to person" is a 70-minute panoramic video exhibit in the 2026 Sydney Biennale by Sydney-based artists Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk which shares the rich history of Woolloomooloo — a pocket of public housing nestled right next to what has become the playgrounds and luxury apartments of the rich on Sydney Harbour — told through first-hand stories of local residents. In this interview wi...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss rallies to mark 78 years of al Nakba (the Catastrophe) and upcoming actions to save Waterloo public housing. Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this vi...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss rallies to stop Labor's cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme and upcoming protests for Nakba Day. Find more upcoming events here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this vi...

There has been a massive investment in data centres to power rapid artificial intelligence growth around the world, but at what cost? On this episode of the Green Left Show we discuss the energy and water impacts of data centres, community opposition, and whether AI is a bubble ready to pop, or here to stay. Isaac Nellist is joined by Ketan Joshi, a climate and energy analyst based in Oslo, Norway...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode, we discuss marches across the country to celebrate May Day, or International Workers' Day, and actions held in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was intercepted by Israeli forces.  We also discusss the upcoming national day...

Graham Matthews joins the Green Left Show to discuss Labor's planned cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - the "largest rollback of disability rights in a generation". Matthews is the Socialist Alliance national spokesperson on disability rights. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First N...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode we discuss anti-war campaigning and international solidarity with Cuba, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Find more upcoming events here . Subscribe to updates from the Global Sumud Flotilla  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleA...

Tash Wark joined Green Left Radio to talk about the industrial campaign to win better wages and conditions for council workers across 8 councils through a multi-employer agreement. Council workers will be taking 24-hour strike action on May 5 to escalate their campaign. Wark is the Victorian secretary of the Australian Services Union (ASU). The whole episode can be heard on 3CR here . We acknowled...

Brooke Forbes joins Green Left Radio to discuss her new book Survival is an Instinct. The book blends fiction and non-fiction to create a multi-layered portrayal of surviving mental health diagnoses and sexual assault. Survival is an Instinct asks whether justice can be achieved through the very act of surviving, looks at where the legal system is failing survivors and talks to the exploitation of...

On The Streets is a podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. On this episode we discussed the nationwide protests to stop violence against women and children, Palestinian Prisoners' Day and resisting repression of the Palestine solidarity movement.  Find more upcoming events  here . Music and editing by Sean Valenz...

Jacob Andrewartha from Green Left speaks to Neysia Novaristia and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono, members of Perserikatan Sosialis (Socialist Union) in Indonesia about the ongoing struggle for democratic rights in Indonesia following the crackdown by the Prabowo government on participants in the mass August 2025 protests in Indonesia. We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We ex...

Muayad Ali joined Green Left Radio on April 10 to discuss the campaign to free Marwan Barghouti, who has unjustly imprisoned for resisting oppression and fighting for the rights of his people for more than 23-years. Ali is a Palestinian organiser with Free Palestine Melbourne. You can listen to the whole episode on 3CR here . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We expr...

On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. This episode, we discuss protests against Israel's bombardment of Lebanon and the ongoing United States-Israel war on Iran. We also discuss upcoming protests against violence against women and for Palestine Prisoners' Day. Find more upcoming events  h...

Ali Keshtkar joined Green Left Radio on April 10 to discuss the impacts of the War on Iran and how socialists can best oppose a war being waged against a regime they're in struggle against. Keshtkar is an Iranian-Australian writer and political activist based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has lived in exile for over three decades and is a former political prisoner and survivor of the death sentence in Ir...

Sarah Williams from What Were you Wearing Australia (WWYW) joined Green Left Radio on April 10 to discuss the upcoming nationwide rallies against domestic and family violence on April 18-19. WWYW is an Indigenous, youth-led charity fighting to end sexual violence in Australia. You can listen to the whole program on 3CR . We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express s...

On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. This episode, we discuss a range of events held to support the people joining the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is set to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and break Israel's blockade, and a rally opposing anti-free speech laws in Queensland.  Find more...

On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. This episode, we discuss anti-war and refugee rights protests on Palm Sunday, Palestine Land Day and Trans Day of Visibility protests. Find more upcoming events here. Music and editing by Sean Valenzuela/@LittleArcherBeats. We acknowledge that this vi...

Simone Titone, a neuroscientist originally from the United States, joins Green Left Radio to discuss the growing transphobic attacks from the Trump administration and how members of the LGBT community are attempting to escape persecution. You can listen to the whole show on the 3CR website . See also: https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1450/analysis/green-left-radio-resisting-transphobic-attacks-un...

The Global Sumud Flotilla is once again preparing to set sail for Gaza to deliver urgent life-saving humanitarian aid and break Israel's illegal siege. Ethan Floyd and Sam Woripa Watson joined the Green Left Show to discuss why they are joining this year's flotilla. Support Ethan Floyd sailing with the flotilla: https://chuffed.org/project/170931-support-ethan-floyd-sailing-with-the-flotilla Suppo...

On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country. This episode, we discuss the massive teachers and school staff strike in Victoria, the nationwide marches for forests and protests in solidarity with Cuba. We highlight upcoming forums on the war on Iran and Palm Sunday protests for peace this weekend...